What kind of coarse, abrasive society are we where we drop our trousers and urinate in the faces of people saying in the only way they know how "this is tragic and I am powerless to reverse the events, you are in my thoughts".

I have a sneaky suspicion that this kind of rotgut just makes those people go vote for the Trumps and Brexits of the world even harder. People still haven't caught on to the fact that reactionary movements are reacting to something.

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corplinx wrote:
What kind of coarse, abrasive society are we where we drop our trousers and urinate in the faces of people saying in the only way they know how "this is tragic and I am powerless to reverse the events, you are in my thoughts".

The kind that also responds to any sort of kindness or compassion for other people as "POLTICAL KERRRECNUSS GONE WILD!!!!"

Lets not kid ourselves and pretend that anyone gives a shit about anyone in our society outside of our own little monkeyspheres

corplinx wrote:I have a sneaky suspicion that this kind of rotgut just makes those people go vote for the Trumps and Brexits of the world even harder. People still haven't caught on to the fact that reactionary movements are reacting to something.

Yes, doing anything except exactly what the Trumpies and Brexiters and Alt-righties and so on and so forth want you to di is EXACTLY why we have Trump and Brexit etc. Surely the only way to get rid of them is to...do exactly what they say.

That's exactly what I say. You have correctly described my opinion. I consider all criticism whether irrational or rational to feed reactionary movements. Everyone must get down on their knees and suck Betsy Devos's way in over her head cock and hail trump.

You win.

Now what?

I mean, if we just cede that your strawmen are true, who actually wins? I don't get what the end game to these types of arguments are supposed to be.

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An Atheist should know better.

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Who exactly is trying to silence criticism of Trump? Nyrl, can you provide any quotes? Absent a quote I will just take this as a troll.

I think that the criticism has become caricature and is probably assuring a victory for him in '20 but I think criticism is just fine. As it is of the loony left. In fact, any diminution of critism and hopping about would be a sign of not good things happening.

Moreover, if they are trying to silence criticism they are doing a poor job since CNN, MSNBC, Colbert, Kimmel, Conan, etc, etc, The View, are all still very vocal. These silencers are the worst silencers aren't they folks?